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<h1 class="chapter" id="sec2">Foreword</h1>
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<li><a href="foreword.html#sec3">Conventions</a>
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<p>This manual documents the release 4.06 of the OCaml
system. It is organized as follows.
</p><ul class="itemize"><li class="li-itemize">
Part&#XA0;<a href="index.html#p%3Atutorials">I</a>, &#X201C;An introduction to OCaml&#X201D;,
gives an overview of the language.
</li><li class="li-itemize">Part&#XA0;<a href="index.html#p%3Arefman">II</a>, &#X201C;The OCaml language&#X201D;, is the
reference description of the language.
</li><li class="li-itemize">Part&#XA0;<a href="index.html#p%3Acommands">III</a>, &#X201C;The OCaml tools&#X201D;, documents
the compilers, toplevel system, and programming utilities.
</li><li class="li-itemize">Part&#XA0;<a href="index.html#p%3Alibrary">IV</a>, &#X201C;The OCaml library&#X201D;, describes the
modules provided in the standard library.

</li></ul><h2 class="section" id="sec3">Conventions</h2>
<p>OCaml runs on several operating systems. The parts of
this manual that are specific to one operating system are presented as
shown below:</p><blockquote class="quote"><span class="c007">Unix:</span>&#XA0;&#XA0; This is material specific to the Unix family of operating
systems, including Linux and MacOS&#XA0;X.
</blockquote><blockquote class="quote"><span class="c007">Windows:</span>&#XA0;&#XA0; This is material specific to Microsoft Windows
(XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10).
</blockquote><h2 class="section" id="sec4">License</h2>
<p>The OCaml system is copyright &#XA9; 1996&#X2013;2013
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en
Automatique (INRIA).
INRIA holds all ownership rights to the OCaml system.</p><p>The OCaml system is open source and can be freely
redistributed. See the file <span class="c003">LICENSE</span> in the distribution for
licensing information.</p><p>The present documentation is copyright &#XA9; 2013
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en
Automatique (INRIA). The OCaml documentation and user&#X2019;s
manual may be reproduced and distributed in whole or
in part, subject to the following conditions:
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The copyright notice above and this permission notice must be
preserved complete on all complete or partial copies.
</li><li class="li-itemize">Any translation or derivative work of the OCaml
documentation and user&#X2019;s manual must be approved by the authors in
writing before distribution.
</li><li class="li-itemize">If you distribute the OCaml
documentation and user&#X2019;s manual in part, instructions for obtaining
the complete version of this manual must be included, and a
means for obtaining a complete version provided.
</li><li class="li-itemize">Small portions may be reproduced as illustrations for reviews or
quotes in other works without this permission notice if proper
citation is given.
</li></ul><h2 class="section" id="sec5">Availability</h2>
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The complete OCaml distribution can be accessed via the
<a href="http://www.ocaml.org/">community Caml Web site</a> and the
<a href="http://caml.inria.fr/">older Caml Web site</a>.
The <a href="http://www.ocaml.org/">community Caml Web site</a>
contains a lot of additional information on OCaml.

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